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Which devices do you use for this?
(...and for what?)
Another method is using shapers: Adern's Fat Cat and Flexor's saturation shapers progressively increase the level of more quiet amplitudes:Cochise wrote:I would increase the level BELOW a threshold
"Fat Cat is a dynamic saturator, which saturates the quiet parts of the sound, to achieve a special warm compression effect. While most compressors reduce the volume of the loud parts, Fat Cat increases the volume of the quiet parts while retaining the volume of the loud parts."
Good news, Immanuel: it comes with the stock effects for ScopeImmanuel wrote:I don't know of [an expander] for the scope platform
Ah at0m, you messed this one up. The stock expander does not let you set ratios of 1 : >1 ... (which is not expansion anymore, but I used the expander for the description/clarification ... which - it appears - wasn't that clear)at0m wrote:Good news, Immanuel: it comes with the stock effects for ScopeImmanuel wrote:I don't know of [an expander] for the scope platform
I'm going deeper into the thing.Immanuel wrote:What you want is an expander, where the ratio is set with the higher numbers after the :
So instead of ratios of i.e. 4:1, the ration can be 1:4 ...
mausmuso wrote:The Optimizer has an expander section, maybe that will do what you are after?
I should like to try that, but I purchased some of the Mix n' Master devices as single plugs and won't pay for the whole pack now to get the Optimaster.mausmuso wrote:Sorry meant Optimaster
This is an interesting approach.at0m wrote:Another method is using shapers: Adern's...
Valve Drive's curve here is one of the more dramatic examples. Modulating the saturation shapers with an envelope (hyper)follower fed from the dry input allows you to create expansion or compression, by applying a positive or negative modulation amount. The different modules offer a broader range of shapes than Fat Cat, and neither of them ever clips the signal since the loudest is never amplified...
About the stock expander btw, it has ratios starting from 1:1 up to inf:1, but it seems not actually responding till values of 2.3:1Immanuel wrote:...The stock expander does not let you set ratios of 1 : >1 ... (which is not expansion anymore, but I used the expander for the description/clarification ... which - it appears - wasn't that clear)
None, that I know ofCochise wrote: Which plugin are you specifically referring to?